F. W. Taylor: Critical Evaluations in Business and ManagementJohn Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood Following the volumes on Henri Fayol, this next mini-set in the series focuses on F.W. Taylor, the initiator of "scientific management". Taylor set out to transform what had previously been a crude art form in to a firm body of knowledge. |
Contents
American education | 11 |
NeoTaylorism in educational administration? | 30 |
Scientific management theory as political ideology | 75 |
Some anomalies in the deep history of U S public administration | 101 |
Scientific management in the Army and Navy | 113 |
Scientific management and the American planning experience | 133 |
a critical analysis of General | 166 |
Scientific management | 179 |
An early account of scientific management as applied | 226 |
women and the history | 252 |
evidence from | 273 |
Attitude of labor towards scientific management | 287 |
The response of workers to scientific management | 299 |
Assaultive violence in the U S post office | 361 |
The effect of Japanese kaizen on employee motivation in U | 380 |
a dissenting view | 194 |
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